Astreopora De Blainville, 1830
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2011.573098 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651908 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987CC-8162-FF98-FE1F-A5D90216FB92 |
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Carolina |
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Astreopora De Blainville, 1830 |
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Genus Astreopora De Blainville, 1830 View in CoL
Colony massive, encrusting, plating or ramose. Axial corallite rarely present. Columella absent, but pseudo-columella, formed by trabecular extensions of the septa, may be present. Coenosteum reticular, formed by outwardly inclined trabeculae, with spinose surface. Dissepiments tabular.
Occurrence: Upper Cretaceous to Recent; Europe, Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.
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